Username/Email:  Password: 
TwitterFacebookFlickrRSS
Home ›

The Ultimate Linux Upgrade: Installing IE7

Apr 01, 2009  By Shawn Powers
 in
FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).

Download in .ogv format

Comments

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

Very funny ...

Pedro's picture
Submitted by Pedro (not verified) on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 03:34.

LOL!

Great joke Shawn !
It is really good to see a great sense of humor :)

LOL!

Pedro

Argh

smpratz's picture
Submitted by smpratz on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 11:04.

Product key?

:o)

Shawn Powers's picture
Submitted by Shawn Powers on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 11:19.

I didn't make it that far into the install.

hehehehe

Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter

Thanks, that was awesome!

Taylor's picture
Submitted by Taylor (not verified) on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 21:57.

That was hilarious even though I knew it was the joke of the day. But you really do make a good point on how Linux does recognise most of the drivers and everything. Made my night complete haha.

Awesome!

Tuxly_Tuxford_McTuxtington's picture
Submitted by Tuxly_Tuxford_M... on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 21:29.

Great job on the April Fools' Day video! IE6 would have been even more over the top. :) I agree with ProfBib that the video, despite the main joke, really does bring home the point that Linux generally gets nearly everything set up without worrying about drivers and stuff like that. It's so easy and the end product (a fast, stable system without viruses) is fantastic.

*kicks computer* Oh... it

eric.maillist@gmail.com's picture
Submitted by eric.maillist@g... on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 20:04.

*kicks computer*

Oh... it was a joke?

EP

hahahahahah

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 17:24.

LMFAO

Great!

Ted D's picture
Submitted by Ted D (not verified) on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 15:15.

Loved the Joke! All kidding aside.. I love Linux and use it as my OS of choice! As Evan stated above, Thanks to the Community for making the Linux OS better and better!

Funny and Amazing

ProfBib's picture
Submitted by ProfBib on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 12:37.

Shawn,

Thanks for sharing this April Fool's Day joke with us. Isn't it amazing, though, that we are now able to install Linux and -- all kidding aside -- the install disc does, in fact, recognize the vast majority of hardware without further interaction from the user? There has been so much progress in this area and the community should really give itself a pat on the back for making Linux more accessible to interested end-users of all talent levels.

By the way, I have no real programming experience and am therefore not involved with any development efforts beyond some translating and usability feedback, so I am not fishing for my own "attaboy" here. I genuinely appreciate all the work that has been done by others!

Best,
Evan